MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he opposed the creation of an international tribunal to prosecute those who shot down a Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine, hours before a U.N. vote on such a proposal. …read more Source:...

Russia is currently ready to sign only an agreement to build the first section of Turkish Stream, Russian news websites quote an Energy Ministry source as saying.This comes after reports that Moscow has sent a draft intergovernmental agreement to Ankara on the construction of a pipeline set to replace the abandoned South Stream project.Turkish...

KIEV (Reuters) – From a basement billiard club in central Kiev, Dmytro Korchynsky commands a volunteer battalion helping Ukraine’s government fight rebels in the east. A burly man with a long, Cossack-style moustache, Korchynsky has several hundred armed men at his disposal. The exact number, he said, is “classified.”...

Ukraine’s government said Monday that separatist rebels opened fire on civilian homes in east Ukraine, in a flare up of weekend fighting that saw monitors for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) caught in heavy gunfire. Two… …read more Source:...

The number of new members of the National Guard (Zemessardze) has been continuously soaring since war began in Eastern Ukraine, Leonīds Kalniņš, the Brigadier General of the National Guard said in an interview to Latvian Radio on Wednesday. …read more Source:...

An OSCE monitor in Ukraine was lightly injured when this mission’s teams came under fire in eastern Ukraine, the OSCE has said.The organization announced a revision of its operations in “certain locations” due to the growing number of incidents. …read more Source:...

Ukraine has moved ban actor Gérard Depardieu from entering the country over the next five years.Depardieu, who in 2013 was granted Russian citizenship, has thus become part of a list including Serbian director Emir Kusturica, Hollywood director Oliver Stone, and actor Steven Seagal.All of them are known for their pro-Russian stance in the...

The UN Security Council is Wednesday to vote on a draft resolution to set up a tribunal to prosecute those found responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in July last year. Russia is set to veto the resolution. …read more Source:...